Post APGsRwFbAdYFTgtA7U by vicki@jawns.club
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 (DIR) Post #APGsRwFbAdYFTgtA7U by vicki@jawns.club
       2022-11-04T16:31:14Z
       
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       I still have no idea how Mastodon works but I’m trying to see who other people are following and it feels like a giant take home interview  in distributed systems internals.
       
 (DIR) Post #APGsRx0kLLGVpuwobo by evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev
       2022-11-04T20:27:41.859Z
       
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       @vicki@jawns.club read the spec and I think it'll make things clearer tbh
       
 (DIR) Post #APGsRxN50J86xBOeQ4 by chjara@snowdin.town
       2022-11-04T20:28:36.857800Z
       
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       @evelyn @vicki the only thing it will make clearer is that the fediverse is incomprehensible chaos magick
       
 (DIR) Post #APGsRzEe4dZUjbSwYC by vicki@jawns.club
       2022-11-04T16:38:28Z
       
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       “How do I see other people people are following on different servers”“You have to do depth-first search down the server tree”“Did you just tell me to go fuck myself”
       
 (DIR) Post #APGsxCujGZyg8T2NI8 by realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com
       2022-11-04T20:36:26Z
       
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       @vicki Sad but somewhat true!It's easier if you're on an instance that federates heavily (so a big one, like mastodon.social). For most users, you should see at least one person that they're following, but if not, you can browse to their profile page on their home instance. For example, here's mine:https://social.freetalklive.com/users/realcaseyrollins/followingUnfortunately, some instances using software such as #Soapbox tend to block you from viewing that page unless you sign into that instance, as you can see on my main account:https://social.teci.world/@realcaseyrollinsBut I believe that is a configurable feature, so not all instances do that.